Pregnantly Plump

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Rabbit boys

The boys have decided to do a local fundraiser -- it might have been suggested to them. They are highly impressionable.

They decided to try pancake mix in jars first. Baby Plum and Cheese Puff helped do the mixing and Baby Plum helped us pour it into jars. Little Elvis picked out the picture on the label.

Then they all posed with their creation for Bob's facebook page. See how nice Little Elvis can smile?

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Cheese Puff and Baby Plum took a different approach to these pictures. I said they both looked rabid.

Little Elvis decided that I thought they looked like rabbits, and thought it was hilarious.

They've already sold about half of our (kind of small) inventory! They are going to decorate some notecards next. I've seen some cool, easy-looking techniques on pinterest. We shall see how "easy" they are.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

The sunroom!

Finally!
I've taken pictures of the sunroom! It's only been several months since it was completed!

This is the view from the pantry. We painted the walls yellow, and the concrete floor is green. We used the rug we used to have under our dining table. We made the roman shades with help from pinterest. We kept the outside brick walls the same. The table and chairs are an outdoor set.

The artwork dotted around the room is by me, or one of the boys mostly.

Little Elvis does his homework at this table. He fusses, but it's not the table's fault. We hung up astronomy posters that Bob's predecessor had. I tried to decoupage a bunch of local maps on his homework table. It looks ok, but they are already peeling off.

And here's Bob's favorite section. He built the guitar/banjo/violin/ukulele holder. The keyboard holder is Cheese Puff's old changing table. Bob put in a special light for this area. It changes colors. He loves the sunroom, especially his music corner.

The cats are also HUGE fans of this room.

Bob also loves this Mississippi shaped wall clock that we won in a silent auction.

I know my pictures don't do it justice, but it turned out really well. We're very happy with it. Bob, especially, because he put in a ton of hard work.

We still have our work cut out for us this summer, but our focus will be more on the outside. Hopefully, the stuff we're doing will work, grow, etc.

MSU bathroom

We (ok, I)
decided the duck bathroom was a little too young for our growing boys, so I wanted to update it. I asked the boys what "theme" they'd like, and Little Elvis yelled "Mississippi State!" Great. I had already decided to use some leftover green paint, and MSU is maroon and white. We did the best we could.

We only had to paint the top half of the room. And we made the roman shade with leftover material from the sunroom shades. I thought it matched well. I still needed to make it MSU, so I put my "artists" to work.

Little Elvis drew a bulldog. It's angry.

We did MSU with legos, and then printed it out in black and white, since the Lego board was green.

Baby Plum wrote MSU and then drew a paw print.

We still call it the duck bathroom, because the Mississippi State bathroom is a mouthful. Maybe the bulldog bathroom? Sometimes I say boys' bathroom, but they just look confused when I do that.

Give Little Elvis a "T"!

I showed pictures of Baby Plum and Cheese Puff's room first, but we finished Little Elvis' room before theirs. His was easier. My aunt gave us a gallon of golden yellow paint. I wanted to save money, so we came up with the idea of giving our big football fan a room dedicated to the local high school -- their colors are blue and gold.

The logo is a big tilted "T." So, we did it. He didn't have a headboard, but I think the T works nicely. He's also got a pillow made from one of my dad's t-shirts. My dad was the athletic director of the high school, so he had some swag we could use...

...like the T flag we hung over the world map. Little Elvis loves that world map. He did the drawing of the tiger on the other side of the window.

He also did the drawing on that wall. I have no clue what it is... a tree? He decided to keep some of his street signs from his other room. And he had to keep the red dresser. I wasn't re-doing it.

Here's my proud boy showing off his room.

He also got to keep the blue chair. It fit better. The cornice boards in his room were made out of bamboo placemats. Sometimes I get a little overly crafty.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Baby Plum and Cheese Puff's room

I finally decided to take some pictures of the hard work we've been putting in around the house.
(I never took real photos of our sunroom, and it's been done for months!)

But I'll start with Baby Plum and Cheese Puff's bedroom.

We like bright, and they are fine with bright, so we painted two walls a bright blue to match Cheese Puff's comforter, and bright green to match Baby Plum's. I also love dots, so Bob made a stencil and we stenciled in hundreds of dots. It was a lot of work, but I think it's really cute.

Our main color inspiration was this really cute quilt someone sent us after the tornado. It's mainly stars, but we couldn't paint lots of stars on the wall. The colors are orange, various shades of blue and green.

This is the other blue wall. We left it plain, since it had the dresser and closet. We have their moon nightlight at the very top, and then we found a little spaceship thing that they could use to hang their artwork. They've loved picking out the pieces that we hang. The little chair is a storage chair that "santa" made for Cheese Puff.

Their fan was ugly. It was. So, now it's orange and light blue.

We made an orange polka-dotted cornice board. It's a little fuzzy, but it's super cute, and I'm proud of it. I'm not so proud of my picture taking, or my straightening skills. Those are cat ears on the floor. The blue chair is one I painted for Baby Plum last year. He picked out the color.

Riding horses, modeling, singing and baking

Cheese Puff got the chance to ride a run old-timey horse at a local store last week. He enjoyed it. He was so cute. He also modeled some pajamas for them, of course.
He was a little shy, but it's amazing what 2 bags of fruit snacks can do for that boy.

The boys also sang and danced at church.

They did a great job. Baby Plum spent the whole song watching Cheese Puff. He's such a sweet older brother.

That afternoon, Baby Plum helped us bake cupcakes with the Pinkalicious cookbook we checked out at the library. I told him he wouldn't want a pink cookbook, but he swore that he did. Little Elvis fussed, but the cupcakes were delicious. We will save the recipe for his birthday cupcakes.

Awards day and his first 1 mile run!

He was very excited about it. He got one for science, reading, all As, and something else.

That weekend, he also ran his first 1-miler! He loves running club, and was so excited.

Here he is doing the warm-up dance.

Here he is finishing his run. He did a great job! They didn't time it, but I think he did a great job.

I'm fairly certain he ran the whole way.

Here he is relaxing after his run with an encyclopedia. He pulls them out and leaves them all over the house. One leads to another. The set is from the early 90s. He's so funny about it.

This morning, he said something about some sort of train he rode in the "big city." The style of train started with "M," as does the "big city." I asked him which one he was looking up, the train or the city. He kept saying he rode the train in the city, and then added that they went to an island that also starts with "M." We sounded like a weird version of "Who's on First?" I finally, just looked. He was reading about the city.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Baby Plum, our cute little one-eared bunny

Baby Plum's
end of year performance was this morning. He was in a cute little musical. His class wore bunny ears and jumped for their part.

He's the only one with a flipped down ear.

He worked it, though. Isn't he cute?

He's so shy (or something, maybe not shy) that he wouldn't look at us for the longest.

But he was fine singing the songs with the other kids.

And attempted to hop, but his ears didn't really let him. He tried to jump and hold them at the same time.

He was so serious. So sweet. The music teacher sat in front of them, and he was very focused on her.

What a sweet, cute little bunny!

I say not shy, because two kids bawled when it was time for their class turn. He's fine performing as a group. He just doesn't like lots of individual attention in groups. He's the complete opposite of Little Elvis.

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

That Baby Plum!

Baby Plum is certainly starting to come more into his own. In some ways it's great. He's funny. He's silly. He's still pretty easy going and willing to be helpful if needed.

He's also not an open book. He rarely tells us anything about school. He was the star student a couple of weeks ago. He told us on Thursday. Very nonchalantly. We have no idea about what's going on with him at school, although he will talk about his friends. Especially to his brothers.

If you ask Cheese Puff who he played with at his school, he will name Baby Plum's friends.

So, he's quiet. But sweet. Shy. But friendly. He still sucks his thumb. We battle it. Some days, it seems on the wane. Other days, it's definitely not.

About Me

Hi! I'm currently a stay-at-home mom to Little Elvis*(5 years old) and Baby Plum* (2.5 years old) and Cheese Puff* (newborn). They keep me very busy. Thanks for visiting!
*names have been changed to protect the innocent